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Kathleen Woodward

Formerly married to Washington Post writer Bob Woodward (All the President's Men), Kathleen Woodward was a graduate student in literature at UCSD who wrote in the first issues of the Reader and recruited others to write, including Jonathan Saville, the paper's first theater critic, and Jeff Weinstein, Woodward's successor as restaurant critic.

Articles by Kathleen Woodward

1973 Reader guide to jogging, bookstores, cheesecake

1973 San Diego guide to cheap eats How to eat on a dollar a day 1973 San Diego guide to rock music Best clubs 1973 San Diego guide to movies Grim harvest 1973 San Diego …

September 12, 2022
San Diego early foodies: the Prophet, Grant Grill, Gatekeeper

I Didn’t Chew My Rice Enough As I sat down to write this review, a woman I know told me not to lie: “I’ve never read an honest restaurant review in San Diego (she said). …

July 11, 2021
What was thought hot 45 years ago

1973 San Diego guide to San Diego guidebooks What Neil Morgan never told you. 1973 San Diego guide to the San Diego Reader Who are these people? 1973 San Diego guide to cheesecake Supermarket, specialty …

January 5, 2019
1974 San Diego guide to restaurant reviews

The Paprika “Think of Hungarian cuisine and you think of sour cream, soups, and liquid-plenty stews, more ways of cooking cabbage than anyone could think possible, and dumplings, and hot noodle desserts, and light fairy-fragile …

October 10, 1974
Paprika Restaurant on State Street, downtown

Every other Wednesday lunch you can order stuffed cabbage, on Friday night there's roast piglet. Hungarian sausage for $2.45 at every lunch, and espresso for 50 cents, which arrives in a plain coffee cup.

November 29, 1973
Five San Diego omelets

The micro-mini hostess in Racquel Welch hair, dressed in deep decadent red to match the menu, asks bluntly, “Do you want a drink?”

November 8, 1973
Joyce Carol Oates' Marriages and Infidelities

Love and marriage Love and marriage They go together Like a horse and carriage This I tell you brother You can't have one You can't have one You can't have one Without the other "Love …

1973 San Diego guide to a year of restaurant reviews

Small Bites From A Year’s Feast of Reviews The Blue Man “...This tiny French restaurant, located in the unlikely town of Lemon Grove, is the most exciting one I’ve discovered in the four years I've …

At the Grant Grill there was no turtle soup left, no gazpacho left, and no vichyssoise

All this crazy activity doesn't mean that the Grant Grill is just another phoney Hotel Circle-Shelter Island restaurant. It's not, it’s not at all. It's a real restaurant, a big city restaurant with white tablecloths and napkins.

September 13, 1973
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